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Probably for the same reason people play the lottery. The odds are against you, but the reward is worth that little bit of effort.
>>but the reward is worth that little bit of effort. Is it? I would guess that in the vast majority of cases where the two people actually re-connected, it led to a date or two and that's it.
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Probably for the same reason people play the lottery. The odds are against you, but the reward is worth that little bit of effort.
>>but the reward is worth that little bit of effort. Is it? I would guess that in the vast majority of cases where the two people actually re-connected, it led to a date or two and that's it.
How is "the car" Georgia's most common missed connection? Hitchhikers? I can't think of anything else.
This is only sad for 3 reasons: 1) Somebody spent the time, effort and likely funding to do an aggregate study of a craigslist Missed Encounters board. 2) This foolishly unrepresentative sample of the american populace is being referred to as a "scholarly study". 3) The author of this article is using this to make broad generalizations about the american social atmosphere based on the aforementioned unrepresentative…
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I met my husband on craigslist missed connections. Back in 2007.
Spill the beans! Tell us more. This is pretty intriguing.
Indiana's most cited location for a missed connection is "at home." How does that make sense?
People in Indiana, do you have a lot of strangers over for parties or something?
I never understood the concept of missed connections on craigslist. Honestly, what's the chance of two people meeting each other, forgetting to swap numbers, and then both going onto craigslist to search/post in the missed connections category? It just seems like such an overwhelming statistical improbability that such a missed connection would ever be fulfilled through craigslist, I don't see why anyone would even b…
I don't know about missed connections, but I lost my car/house /bike lock keys in Boston while riding my bike to work (somewhere between the end of the bike path and The Garden) I didn't realize I had lost my keys until after I locked my bike up, so it was a particularly bad after-work-surprise. Anyways, after a few days of looking all over my house/work for them, my girlfriend suggested I check CraigsList's Lost+Fou…
"You were wearing a flamethrower with bright pink hair and green blinking boots while you were riding on top of the bus made to look like a disco elephant..."
Dammit, Indiana, there you go making me cringe in the news again. At home? What does that even mean ?
"I saw your at home. You were walking down the street talking to your friend in the pink shirt on Sunday by the intersection of Oak & Grove."
"Me: In my garden working on my herbs. You: In the red SUV listening to Lady Gaga with the windows down. We made eye contact."
"Saw you, cute redhead, at your home. Peeping in your window."
